The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

The book that taught America to measure. Fannie Farmer's 1896 classic replaced the pinch, the lump and the teacup of the old receipts with the level cup and the level spoon — and then filled eight hundred pages with what to do next.

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Rye Gems

12½ cups rye flour 1/4 cup molasses 1½ cups flour 1/4 cups milk 4 teaspoons baking powder 2 eggs 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons melted butter Mix and sift dry ingredients, add molasses, milk, eggs well beaten, and butter. Bake in hot oven in buttered gem pans twenty-five minutes.

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